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This article is long, but is a fascinating look at a recent theory about autism and how the brain works in people with autism
https://medium.com/matter/70c3d64ff221
https://medium.com/matter/70c3d64ff221
I totally agree with your theory, and so does my geneticist and pediatrician. There is a reason why people with autistic children tend to have more than one child on the spectrum. One of my childhood friends has a child with ASD. She swears it is from the MMR vaccine. I've never said anything, but she and her brother and her father (so the kid's uncle and grandfather) are all "quirky" and have several ASD traits. Her mother (who works with autistic kids) also noticed something was different about him as an infant, before he even started vaccinations. But her second child didn't get vaccinated and doesn't have ASD so she swears that proves her point. She is about to have her third, and I don't know what she will do if the child turns out to be on the spectrum even though it won't be vaccinated.I also saw that it strengthened my theory - a 'quirky', intense father presages an autistic child. To me (and it's just my theory) it seems like the father has a mild version, and the child gets a more intense version. I definitely see a genetic, inherited part to it.